#historical fantasy

I have a deep love for Native American, Aztec, Mayan, and Incan Cultures. I also have a deep love for European History (my favorites being Pre-Roman Brittania, Ancient Greece, and Age of Exploration). I also love the fantasy genre and I am a huge fan of RPG (in case you couldn’t tell). Thus I love the games I am about to point out.

Dragons Conquer America and Chronica: Age of Exploration.

Both are historical fantasy games set in/around the age of exploration.

Both are epic.

DCA, by Burning Games, is a great game with a unique system that involves Dragon Riders, Werejaguars, Headhunting Tribal Necromancers, Conquistadors, Inquisitors, Missionaries, Courtesans, Aristocrats, and more as Player Options. There are spells that require human sacrifice, spells that enable you to become the vessel for the horsemen of the apocalypse, spells that enable you to summon a giant serpent, seduction magic, magic tattoos, and more. Also, Ave Maria and Pater Noster are spells for Christian Spellcasters, while the Norse are under the rule of Giants, King Arthur is still alive and leads an army of Fairies, Eastern Europe is ruled by Vampires, and the Muslims have allied with Djinn.  It is all really cool.

https://burning-games.com/dragons-conquer-america/

Chronica is a Pathfinder setting set in a historical fantasy version of our world during the age of exploration. There are Olmec Lizardmen, and Empire of Rakshasa, Atlantis, and The Library of Alexandria. You can be an Atlantean Elf, an Olmec Lizardmen, a Turkish Artillerymen, a Half-Rakshasa, and so much more. Also, Genghis Khan is back (he was frozen in stone all this time), and you should heed the rumors of the Bermuda Triangle. It is all really cool.

https://www.chronica-aoe.com/#!home/cjg9

I highly recommend both and give them both 5 out of 5 stars.

windowsill // late 1800s – colourized

taste // 1890s

windowsill // late 1800s

evening chat // 1816

happy valentine’s // mukavaa ystävänpäivää
– here’s the lads (yet again)

some folks from 1860s

demonstration // 1816

// so there was this anon who said they are running a campaign for ’ basically a band of fantasy percy shelleys and lord byrons trying to survive 1816 because wizards ’ and i havent been able to stop thinking about it.

1866 // 13-18

previous pages (9-12)
website (FIN and ENG)

im putting a cut here because this’d be a long post otherwise –

and that wraps up the first scene! onwards hahaha – finally.

1866 / 9-12

previous pages (5-8)
website (FIN and ENG)

read to me – a couple more paragraphs // december, 1762

daguerreotype – unknown // 1840s

early arrivals // 1816

closer // 1816

johann // 1816

a moment in the woods // 1400s

a pike. a sword. a flag // 1400s

man on a bench // 1921

wherein all else disappears // 1816

ventures // 1700s

miscellaneous entries from a captain’s log // 1700s

Character designs for @huiii-f and mine comic~

“Ideas come to those who work hard on them.

As for Matthew Boroson, he reads a lot.

He reads all sorts of obscure books on Chinese mythology, culture and history and no few biographies. Hundreds of books, tens of thousands of pages. He talks to people about their folklore and mythology, religion and belief systems. All the stories, all the time. Sometimes he even watches Run Run Shaw movies.

“Write what you know” is easy advice to bandy about. But what do you know?

No, really. What do you know that is interesting, that you are passionate about, that you are an expert about?

Boroson wrote this crazy story about a young Chinese exorcist in San Francisco’s Chinatown; he wrote what he knew.

His ideas came from a little bit of inspiration. His passion drove him through enough research for a couple of masters degrees. No muses that need bribery with chocolate. Probably a few dreams induced by living in dusty books. No tragedy or trauma meant to create sympathy. Hard work.

The result is actually a pretty great book.

The Girl with Ghost Eyes reads easily. The stakes are clear in the first few pages and keep escalating all the way. The lead character (Xian Li-Lin) is heroic not because she is imbued with super powers but because she is willing to risk everything. The story even has important existential dimensions…

This is the result of work and it comes with my hearty recommendation.”

fromhttp://anewdomain.net/where-does-inspiration-come-from-the-girl-with-ghost-eyes-review/

I don’t actually agree with everything psychology professor Jason Dias said in this article. (For one thing, I prefer Golden Harvest and Cinema City over the Shaw Brothers.) But his ideas about inspiration are compelling, and rooted in the reality of my experience. I would love to read books by authors who are completely in love with their material, who live and breathe their research, whose knowledge permeates their dreams, whose dialogue is inflected with the voices of the hundreds of people they interviewed.

Robin & Edwin

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

WIP; Robin Blyth and Edwin Courcey from A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske